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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · Aug 22

The Black Panthers were accurately describing the US as fascist in the 60s. That's how far behind you are if a dictator moving troops in to occupy cities & arresting his opposition & disappearing people is just clicking as fascism for you.

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · Aug 19

TONIGHT!

Join us for the virtual book launch of @writesloud.bsky.social collection: FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT (@stanchion.bsky.social)

Readers include: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social, @toddedillard.bsky.social, @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social, and me!

Register here:

www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · Aug 12

C.T. Salazar

@ctsalazar.bsky.social
@acrebooks.bsky.social

deep enough into this cave / when our oxygen
runs thin we'll confuse the glowworms
for teeming yellow moons

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · Aug 12

It seems like “release the list” has become a fantasy for people who feel helpless for different reasons. Even if it were right in front of everyone, it wouldn’t enlighten us about what we already know is horrendous. Furthermore, who’s supposed to enforce the imagined consequences of being on it?

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · Aug 11

An anthology of contemporary surrealism? Say less!

Compiling four years of our Surreal-Absurd Sampler series, we have 80+ poets across 370 pages, full of weird poems & micro essays on the surreal

Thrilled to have helped with this tome 📚

More here: www.mercurius.one/books/the-su...

The Surreal-Absurd Sampler: a print anthology

Zachary Schomburg
Jennifer L. Knox
Tom Jenks
Michael Chang
Barton Smock
Rachel B. Glaser
John Maradik
Aase Berg
Réka Nyitrai
Liam Bates
Evan Nicholls
Shivani Mehta
Satoshi Iwai
Sawako Nakayasu
Joyelle McSweeney
Lesle Lewis
Evan Williams
Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
Kristin Bock
Howie Good
Jeff Alessandrelli

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Beth Gordon @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social · Aug 11

I'm beyond thrilled to finally share some amazing news. My second full-length collection, Alchemy of Nests, will be published by
@acrebooks.bsky.social in 2027. Thank you to Lisa Ampleman and Nicola Mason for selecting this manuscript and for already being wonderful editors / collaborators.

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · Aug 11

Absolutely delighted to share this news! Please welcome @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social to Acre Books! 🎉🎉🎉

Beth Gordon @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social · Aug 11

I'm beyond thrilled to finally share some amazing news. My second full-length collection, Alchemy of Nests, will be published by
@acrebooks.bsky.social in 2027. Thank you to Lisa Ampleman and Nicola Mason for selecting this manuscript and for already being wonderful editors / collaborators.

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · Aug 5

Fiston Mwanza Mujila, from his poetry collection The River in the Belly (2021)

translated by J. Bret Maney

@deepvellum.bsky.social

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Aug 5

America is my myth.

—Natalie Diaz

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · Aug 5

Everyone thrives (dies) in the necro-economy

C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · Jul 31

Oh this is so great thank you!

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Jul 31

What if we're all lovers. What if we're all little books. Little consequences.

Dawn Lundy Martin

Opening, red fabric, legs wanting to be that. There is want and then there are stones. I was a stone once myself. A smooth blind projection. I create you in the image of my desire. Which makes you nothing. I forget my own desire, which has a blame factor. A record of convolution. Remember, L----, I become consumed in waiting and then there's nothing else. All time is nothing.
The days just pass and I'm in anguish. Anguish is a red hurt, basalt. The time of expanded presence. What if we're all lovers. What if we're all little books. Little consequences.

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · Jul 30

Poets! What are your favorite poems about stars? ✨

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · Jul 30

This is incredible—and one of the few Beachy-Quick collections I haven’t read! I loved his Circle’s Apprentice and Gentlelessness

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · Jul 30

Poets! What are your favorite poems about stars? ✨

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · Jul 27

Poets, what’re your favorite contrapuntal poems? 👀

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thanks for sharing this one!

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · Jul 27

I need to revisit it! You’re absolutely right! 🙏🏼

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · Jul 27

Oooo I’ll look it up! Thanks for this tip!

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · Jul 27

Poets, what’re your favorite contrapuntal poems? 👀

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · Jul 22

The pleasure was mine!

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Southern Review of Books @southrevbooks.bsky.social · Jul 14

"If 'Tree Fall' is loss — that things change, life ends, meaning is lost — what could represent the opposite qualities of birth, of creation, of fullness. An early poem gave me my answer with 'Birdsong.'"

Read more from @ctsalazar.bsky.social's interview with @kdunkelberg.bsky.social!

The Way Sound and Meaning Interact: A Conversation with Kendall Dunkelberg

“I knew that mortality was goig to be a big part of the collection.” An interview with Kendall Dunkelberg about Tree Fall with Birdsong, his fourth poetry collection.

southernreviewofbooks.com

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Kendall Dunkelberg @kdunkelberg.bsky.social · Jul 14

Many thanks to Southern Review of Books and C. T. Salazar for the fabulous interview that was published today! Thanks for the great questions @ctsalazar.bsky.social #poetrycommunity southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/07/14/t...

The Way Sound and Meaning Interact: A Conversation with Kendall Dunkelberg

“I knew that mortality was goig to be a big part of the collection.” An interview with Kendall Dunkelberg about Tree Fall with Birdsong, his fourth poetry collection.

southernreviewofbooks.com

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Jul 8

I am so excited to announce that the launch reading for A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems officially has a lineup!! register at the 🔗 in 🧵 to hear Lauren Parker, Jude Marr, Zoe Mitchell, Amanda McLeod, C. T. Salazar, Beth Gordon, & Tom Snarsky on Thursday, 7/17! 🎤💌⛰️💡

NIGHT LIGHT
THURSDAY 7/17
9PM EASTERN
ZOOM

ANIMAL HEART PRESS / LAUNCH FOR TOM SNARSKY’S A LETTER FROM THE MOUNTAIN & OTHER POEMS

LAUREN PARKER
JUDE MARR
ZOE MITCHELL
AMANDA MCLEOD
C. T. SALAZAR
BETH GORDON
TOM SNARSKY

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